A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong
By Andrew O'Hehir Jul 3, 2009
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Paul Krugman blames Reagan for today's crisis. Conservatives and liberals gang up to give him a history lesson
By Andrew Leonard
June 4, 2009
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When will the Right be over Reagan? Our undercover conservative says don't hold your breath
By Glenallen Walken
June 1, 2009
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Deficits don't matter -- and Republicans who are complaining about Barack Obama's spending are hypocrites.
By Joe Conason
March 27, 2009
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If you look only at the small print, the president's economic program looks modest. If you look at the big picture, it's radical.
By Robert Reich
March 16, 2009
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A tale told via cryptic one-liners: 20th century ghosts are haunting the G-20 summit meeting.
By Andrew Leonard
April 2, 2009
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A Wall Street Journal columnist says the shell-shocked Dow is Obama's fault, and then tells him how to fix it. First: More Ronald Reagan, less Jimmy Carter. It gets worse from there.
By Andrew Leonard
February 23, 2009
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Why did the president make the mistake of thinking he could work with the GOP? His mealy-mouthed support for the Gipper provides a clue.
By Gary Kamiya
February 10, 2009
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With the Gipper's reputation flagging after Clinton, neoconservatives launched a stealthy campaign to remake him as a "great" president.
By Will Bunch
February 2, 2009
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Obama shows his skill at stimulus politics, addressing an admiring crowd of CEOs while the GOP postures and makes itself increasingly irrelevant
By Joan Walsh
January 28, 2009
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We need a new citizen-based Social Contract that would deliver universal healthcare and paid family leave.
By Michael Lind
January 21, 2009
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Do you remember the last time global oil consumption dropped and weekly jobless claims spiked over half a million? How about the halcyon days of Ronald Reagan's first term?
By Andrew Leonard
December 11, 2008
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Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word.
By Michael Lind
November 21, 2008
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Kenneth Duberstein says he'll vote for Barack Obama, and adds, of Palin V.P. choice, "even at McDonald's you get interviewed three times."
By Alex Koppelman
October 31, 2008
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Would they please shut up about the wonders of an unfettered free market? It's taxpayers who are paying the price for their greed -- again.
By Joe Conason
September 19, 2008
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A reflection on current affairs
By Andrew Leonard
September 18, 2008
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A future of ever-stormier weather will make life tough for Gulf offshore oil drillers. Go ahead, blame the Gipper.
By Andrew Leonard
September 9, 2008
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With the presidential race in Michigan too close for comfort, it can only help Obama that Detroit's racially divisive and felonious mayor has finally lost his job.
By Edward McClelland
September 4, 2008
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Not only is former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm a shill for special interests, his deregulation policies helped spur the mortgage crisis, among other financial disasters.
By Joe Conason
May 30, 2008
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The senator's indictment of the Democratic Party is just as dishonest as his failure to discuss his own evolution as an ally of McCain's.
By Joe Conason
May 23, 2008
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In "The Age of Reagan," liberal historian Sean Wilentz reckons with the enormous, ongoing influence of the teflon president.
By Louis Bayard
May 13, 2008
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A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 14, 2008
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How John McCain is like Ronald Reagan.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 28, 2008
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William F. Buckley declared war on the political left during Vietnam and the civil rights era. But even he rejected the extremism of George W. Bush.
By Glenn Greenwald
February 27, 2008
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The father of modern conservatism is found at his desk at home.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 27, 2008
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No, Jimmy Carter did it
Dear Wingnut, Ronald Reagan's dead. Time to move on!
Dick Cheney was right
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Obama's Reagan problem
How Republicans created the myth of Ronald Reagan
Democrats: The party of business
An economic Bill of Rights for Americans
Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?
Former Reagan chief of staff endorses Obama
The corporate financiers are wrong
Kwame Kilpatrick exits, with Barack Obama holding the door
McCain's scary economic advisor
Joe Lieberman, ideological turncoat
Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck
Dick Cheney was never a "grown-up"
The "father of modern conservatism," dead at 82
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